Aaron Foley has a bone to pick with the auto show over a parking situation that he says is stuck in the "dark ages."
He writes:
I don't know who to blame for this. Do we blame Cobo? The Detroit Auto Dealers Association? Kevyn Orr? Mike Duggan? Either way, someone's got to fix the ridiculous parking situation for the Detroit auto show's press preview days.
Foley has heard a number of complaints.
Talking with a few journalists at various parties last night, I found out a few things. One guy says that apparently the night before — the night before! — journalists arrived at Cobo, someone made a decision to not allow people with parking passes to park on the roof and only allow people with some kind of special permit. Passes are sent to journalists weeks before the show.
If you wanted to pay to park on the roof, you couldn't do that either. Usually if I don't have a pass beforehand, I just pay. Unbeknownst to what was going on, when I approached the guard to get on the roof, he wouldn't let me through. I drove past him anyway (like a boss!). I paid my usual $10, but the parking attendant in the booth said I technically wasn't supposed to do that because of the new rule (that even he wasn't clear on). Anyhow, even though I was basically parking illegally, I wasn't towed. So yeah, that's how you sneak onto the roof of Cobo Center.
